Shipwreck · Lake Superior · Foundered
SS Chester A. Congdon
A lake freighter built in 1907, wrecked on Lake Superior. The record: “Sank on Lake Superior.” The wreck is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Lake freighter
- Builder
- Chicago Shipbuilding Company, South Chicago, Illinois
- Launched
- 29 August 1907
- Length
- 552 ft (168 m)
- Beam
- 56 ft (17 m)
- Tonnage
- 6530 GRT; 4843 NRT
- Propulsion
- 1 × fixed pitch propeller
- Fate
- Sank on Lake Superior
- Wreck site
- Congdon Shoals, northeast end of Isle Royale National Park, Michigan
- National Register
- Listed 14 June 1984 · ref. 84001716
- Lake
- Lake Superior
- Coordinates
- 48.1933° N, 88.5144° W
On the bottom nearby
Nearest Superior wrecks
- SS Emperor1.2 mi
- SS Monarch3.7 mi · lost 1906
- SS Algoma5.7 mi
- SS Kamloops14 mi · lost 1927
- SS Scotiadoc18 mi · lost 1953
- SS Glenlyon20 mi · lost 1924
Straight-line distance between published positions.
Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article SS Chester A. Congdon, retrieved 2026-10-11. We print the fields as recorded and add nothing; a missing field means the record is silent. Tonnage and dimensions were often measured more than one way in their day, so they can differ between sources.
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